I admit that I ain’t no angel, I admit that I ain’t no saint – I’m selfish and I’m cruel and I’m blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they’re so hard to find.
TOM WAITSThere’s no prayer like desire.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.
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You know, we just buy music now. We don’t make it any more. And that goes for just about everything. I think it’s so important that people develop and subscribe to and have confidence in their own ability to make music, however rough it is.
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I’m not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.
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I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
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Most people don’t care if you’re telling them the truth or if you’re telling them a lie, as long as they’re entertained by it.
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I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I’m a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.
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Bill Hicks – blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.
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Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier.
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Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
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There’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.
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